I have no idea why the windsock would do this for some users, The windsock is certainly one of most awkward pieces of FS coding, as it has to access old FS2002 wind speed and direction variables, it could be that this access in proximity to another windsock doing the same thing is causing an interaction feedback loop, that then causes a pause until the sim gives up.

This is all guess work, but this is only way I have of making a active windsock, so it's case of living without the active windsock if it causes an issue for some users.

Thank you so much for putting the windsocks into separate files, this makes it so much better for me. I can use the windsocks at the airfields where I need them and turn them off elsewhere.

Could I be cheeky and ask you to do the same for the volume 1 airfields too please? I see volume 3 already has this feature and in fact turns off the windsocks when you disable the airfield in the options menu.

This has really solved the problem for me as I can just activate the airfields I want to use for each session.

I went away for a while. Despite my earlier affirmation that the windsock issue worked, in reality it didn't and I binned UK2000 on fsx. Since then I have upgraded to p3d 4.1 on a new computer with 1080ti and 8400k@4.5g. Happily running p3d with no problems at all, when I though I would take another look at uk2000 to see if this problem was resolved. I've downloaded the new uk2000 installers and decided to do a test flight from egbj to egva via egbp. 6 second pause after leaving Gloucester, approx 4 miles before Fairford another 6 second pause. I cannot stress enough that this is a new machine, new software, new everything. Same old problem though.